Thursday 17 December 2015

Cyber and traditional criminals to form alliance

Cyber criminals and traditional criminals will work together to create more havoc in the industry in the years to come, Kaspersky Lab CEO said.

Eugene Kaspersky told Gulf News that at the moment, the cyber criminals hire street criminals to attack ATMs while traditional criminals hire hackers to hack industrial systems.

“I am afraid that we will see more complicated attacks and could be a very different scenario not only for cyber security but also for physical security,” he said.

In the past, he said that there were only cyber criminals, espionage and state-sponsored attacks. Now, the industry is seeing more attacks on transportation, industrial systems from the traditional criminals. The traditional criminals now recognise the “power of cyber systems” and they hack industrial computer systems to support the traditional crime.For the full article click here 



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